Spoon (2005)

Holanda, século XVII. O artista Jan van Loos (Dane DeHaan) é contratado para pintar o retrato do casal Sandvoort e imediatamente se apaixona pela jovem esposa do rico comerciante, Sophia (Alicia Vikander). Completamente envolvida no tórrido romance e cansada da existência infeliz ao lado do marido, ela decide fugir de casa para viver o amor.

Conheça a história do boxeador Jim Braddock, chamado de "O Cinderela", que superou as dificuldades trazidas pela Grande Depressão americana e se transformou em herói nacional ao enfrentar o campeão Max Baer em uma luta memorável.

Um agente da resistência holandesa na Segunda Guerra Mundial, trabalha disfarçado para Wiston Churchill para infiltrar um agente na casa do Kaiser. Um perigoso romance inflama entre um oficial alemão e uma jovem holandesa judaica, enquanto ocorre a corrida nazista para identificar e eliminar o agente por trás da deserção potencialmente desastrosa de seu ex-imperador para a Inglaterra.

Setembro de 1944, os Aliados confidencialmente mandam para a Normandia um grande grupo de soldados para a operação Market Garden, cuja intenção era dar um fim para a Segunda Guerra Mundial, invadindo a Alemanha e destruindo as indústrias de guerra do 3º Reich. Durante a operação, disparidades políticas no campo de batalha, mó sorte nas condições meteorológicas e falhas na inteligência levam ao desastre da missão. A história do mais trágico erro tático da Segunda Guerra Mundial, que custou a vida de muitos soldados.

A boy tries invain to get aboard a fishing boat. Gazing over the water he imagines a life aboard.

Rachel Rosenthal é uma cantora judia que, durante uma tentativa de fuga, perde toda sua família em um ataque alemão. Ela se apaixona pelo oficial alemão que ela deveria espionar e quando suspeitam de um traidor dentro da resistência, ela é forçada a escolher o lado onde a sua lealdade está.

Dr. Evil e seu comparsa conseguem escapar da penitenciária e, juntamente com Goldmember, elaboram mais um arrojado plano de dominação mundial, que envolve uma viagem no tempo e ainda o sequestro de Nigel Powers, pai de Austin e o mais renomado espião de todos os tempos. Austin também viaja no tempo para deter os planos do trio de vilões, reencontrando em 1975 uma antiga namorada, Foxxy Cleopatra. Juntos, Austin e Foxxy devem salvar Nigel e impedir Dr. Evil e Goldmember de dominarem o mundo.

No Harlem dos anos 1930, mafioso trava batalha pela lucrativa casa de jogos de uma mulher conhecida como a Rainha Stephanie St. Clair. É quando entra em cena um gângster negro, recém-saído da prisão, que se aproxima do legendário "Lucky" Luciano para tentar vencer a guerra.

Um exorcista não convencional, que é capaz de entrar no subconsciente de uma mente possuída, conhece uma outra pessoa com a mesma capacidade enquanto confronta seu próximo caso, um garoto de nove anos de idade que está possuído por um demônio do seu passado.

In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and afterwards put the images ‘up right’ again in the film. By doing this, we see the ‘usual’ waterfront, but transformed by the rippling of the water. In this way Mirror of Holland became a modern looking experimental film. However this did not devalue the Dutch sentiment regarding waterfronts that are so trusted to so many.

As vidas de Erik Lanshof e cinco de seus amigos mais próximos tomam caminhos diferentes quando o exército alemão invade a Holanda em 1940: luta e resistência, medo e resignação, colaboração e alta traição.

This documentary takes an economic perspective, painting a candid picture of how the Dutch chain store HEMA has had to adapt to modern times and globalization to continue as a major player on the highly competitive retail market. It's all about expansion, even as far as China. But do foreign countries really need quintessentially Dutch concepts such as uniform pricing, the classic HEMA smoked sausages and timeless ladies' dresses? Chinese filmmaker Yan Ting Yuen, who came to the Netherlands at the age of six, followed the passionate CEO for a year, trying to find out what makes HEMA so unique. It turns out to be about more than just smoked sausages, as shown by the success of the new stores in France, where customers stuff their baskets with coffee mugs and Dutch syrup waffles.

Durante a segunda guerra mundial, um garoto de 14 anos chamado Michiel, na sua Holanda ocupada, se junta a resistência britânica após salvar a vida de um soldado ferido em batalha. À medida que o garoto vai crescendo, ele aprende a separar suas fantasias da infância da realidade nua e crua da guerra em andamento.

A low-class antisocial family ends up in a rich upper-class neighborhood and causes all sorts of trouble.

Two pairs of Mormon missionaries from America live in a beaten-up apartment in the Dutch city of Haarlem. Their personalities are distinctly different. Elder Johnson is the District Leader and oversees their efforts. His companion, the vain Elder Van Pelt, seeks to become the assistant to the mission president (the top post available) as soon as possible. The capable Elder Rogers has become disillusioned and inattentive to his duties ever since a previous missionary companion returned to America and married Elder Roger's girlfriend. The three meet Elder Roger's new companion, Elder Calhoun, in the train station. This new elder is a nerdy but enthusiastic "greenie" that has just arrived from the Missionary Training Center (MTC) in Utah. Unfortunately, his training did not give him much fluency in the Dutch language. But as luck would have it, the first person he approaches to proselytize is a fellow American named Kyle.

Uma gata chamada Minoes (Carice Van Houten) toma um líquido misterioso e vira humana. Com a nova aparência ela decide não voltar para seus donos e passa a viver nos telhados da cidade. Em uma de suas aventuras, Minoes conhece um jornalista e juntos eles irão investigar um falso benfeitor na vizinhança.

Em 1888, um obstinado fabricante de violino de Amsterdã se vê envolto em perigo e tragédia após desafiar empresários que ameaçam sua comunidade.

A romantic comedy with action and suspense. Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels. Despite a continuous exchange of quips they eventually become romantically involved.

Antwerp, Belgium. The lives of four small-time drug dealers spin out of control when they steal a shipment of cocaine, triggering a full out war between an Amsterdam drug lord and a ruthless Colombian cartel.

Portrait of Arnhem destroyed by war. Citizens and volunteers clear the rubble and start the reconstruction of their city.

Sextet is a film about love and relationships in Amsterdam. It features an ingeniously interwoven plot of several stories and characters. Together with the feature SIMON (2004) this one is part of Terstall's trilogy about the liberties of the present Dutch society.

Once upon a time a carnivorous advertising methodist (Richard Bohringer) finds himself stuck between floors in an old elevator. The owner of the deserted building (Ute Lemper) does not help, but plays with him like a prey trapped. To get out, he threatens, attempts to seduce, to deceive, to be honest. After this confrontation for several days...

Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs. In these artificial neighborhoods, there is a sense of careless sprawl in an car dominated culture that ineffectually tries to create the more organically grown older communities. Interspersed with the comments of various experts about the nature of suburbia

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.

Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a single 8th Air Force B-17 crew from training through a series of missions over Europe.

An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their vacation cottage on the Irish coast, uncovers a series of suspicious clues indicating that it was no accident after a pretty financial reporter who resembles his dead wife turns up.

Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.

A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out, the other a lonely but hardworking secretary. Eventually, as cracks form in their passionate relationship, they resort to robbing an aging actress for money.

A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide and tries to find the actors who worked on the project.

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.

A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.

I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.

Five very different characters are thrown together in one weird, mashed up day. It started out like any other, but 24 hours later everything had changed. South West 9 takes you through the windscreen of the new millenium. The death of idealism, capitalism, religion and hippies. Even the drugs don't work anymore. The 'summer of love' generation have come down and they're ready to riot. Seattle. Stockholm. Paris. Genoa. May Day riots.

The same day of their marriage, Jean's wife dies of a strange ailment in the middle of surgery. Afflicted by the loss, the young man abandons his medical studies and takes refuge in the memories of his time of courtship. At the same time that this happens, a wave of murders shakes the city with the same pattern of behavior: the victims are surgery students whose bodies have had both hands amputated.

BooBoo, a young telepath, and her father, Yogi, are revolutionaries pitted against the "New Electromagnetic Order". Their story, set in the year 2007 in a blighted Nevada outpost, is interwoven with a history of the development of electromagnetic technologies, from X-rays to atom bombs, from television to the Internet.